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'New York State Route 25' is a major east-west road running from east midtown Manhattan, New York City, to the Cross Sound Ferry terminal at Orient Point on the end of the North Fork of Long Island.
NY 25 has many names. In the borough of Queens, it is called Braddock Avenue, Hillside Avenue and finally Queens Boulevard (more infamously known as the "Boulevard of Death", as it has the highest rate of pedestrian deaths in New York City). In Nassau and Western Suffolk counties, Route 25 is referred to as Jericho Turnpike. Moving east, the highway changes names to Main Street in Smithtown, Middle Country Road in Central Suffolk, Main Street again in Riverhead and finally Main Road in Eastern Suffolk.
NY 25 is carried from Queens to Manhattan over the East River via the double-decked Queensboro Bridge. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the 59th Street Bridge. The bridge is the only double-decked portion of NY-25.
Two alternate routings exist bearing the designation "Truck Route 25", both along the North Fork of Long Island. One is between Laurel and Greenport, and the other is directly within Greenport itself along Moore's Lane.

Contents

Route description

Major intersections

History

Former segments

Miscellanea

References

External links

Route description

Communities

★ New York City ★ Hempstead ★ North Hempstead ★ Oyster Bay ★ Huntington ★ ★ West Hills, South Huntington, Huntington Station, Elwood, East Northport, Commack (western portion) ★ Smithtown ★ ★ Commack (eastern portion), Smithtown, Village of the Branch, St. James, Nesconset ★ Brookhaven ★ ★ Lake Grove, Centereach, Selden, Coram, Middle Island, Ridge ★ Riverhead ★ ★ Calverton (eastern portion), Riverhead, Aquebogue, Jamesport, Laurel (western portion) ★ Southold ★ ★ Laurel (eastern portion), Mattituck, Cutchogue, East Cutchogue, Peconic, Southold, Greenport, East Marion, Orient

Major intersections

History

Former segments

'Jericho:'

★ Between Marian Road and somewhere west of NY 106-107 Interchange
'Coram:'

★ From east of Paul's Path to Grant Smith Road.

★ Between Coram-Mount Sinai Road & Winfield Davis Road.
'Middle Island:'

★ Near Spring Lake.

★ Between Lakeview Terrace & Curran's Road.

★ From Artist's Lake to Woodville Road.
'Riverhead:'

★ From River Road to Forge Road.

★ Forge Road, from Peconic River Bridge to Kroemer Avenue.
'Mattituck:'

★ From Gray Avenue to West of Sigsbee Road.
'Peconic:'

★ Lower Road.

★ Ackerly Pond Lane between Lower Road & Main Road.
'Southhold:'

★ Between Budd's Pond & Mill Creek to Hashamomuck Pond.
'Greenport:'

★ Between the creek from Silver Lake & Silvermere Road.
'Orient Point:'

★ West of Bight Road.

★ Near Charles Rose Airport.

Miscellanea

★ The first series of lime green school zone signs in the United States were installed along a section of NY 25 in Westbury, New York.

★ In the early-1970s, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) wanted to install frontage roads along a divided Route 25 between Nesconset and Lake Grove as part of a proposed upgrade of NY 347 into the limited-access highway it was originally meant to be.

★ In the 1960s and 1970s, NYSDOT wanted to realign both Route 112 and Route 25 in Coram. The realignment and widening of NY 25 was to take place between NY 112 and Winfield Davis Road.

References

1. New York Routes - New York State Route 25

External links

★ Queensborough Bridge History from NYCROADS.com

★ Queens Boulevard Expressway proposals from NYCROADS.com

★ NY 25-25A concurrency (Gribblenation.net)

★ Cross Sound Ferry Services